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Dark Matter
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I really liked this book. When I added this book to my want to read shelf, I thought it would trigger me or have an effect on me the way a psychological thriller usually have on me, but it hasn't.
It's a really cool book!
The book starts off with Jason preparing supper for his family on their family night and also having to visit his friend to celebrate his friend's victory of winning the Pavia prize. From the first chapter, I pick up that he wasn't entirely happy about it and somehow jealous as he gave up his dream to look after Daniella and his son 15 years ago. On his way home from the event, he chooses a dark and quiet section to get home and there he is stopped by someone unknown, yet he somehow recognizes the person but cannot place him. This stranger asks him certain questions about his life and asks him whether he is happy with the choices he made - choosing to keep his son or going for his dream. Seems he wasn't happy with his choices. After a while, he then wakes up in another place and doesn't know where he is.
He then realizes that what he thought was real, isn't real, at least from what he sees and his wife isn't his and his son doesn't even exist!
He finally figures what went wrong and tries to make his way home through the box and multiverse that he built when he as the other Jason, the Jason who made the choice to follow his dream instead of the birth of his son. He struggles but eventually makes his way there. But a lot of weird things starts to happen.
It's amazing. From what I read, each choice you make gets made into another world. It creates a path from where you chose this choice or that. So there ends up being a lot of worlds.
I'm not sure if that makes sense, but to me it does.
It's a really cool book!
It's a really cool book!
The book starts off with Jason preparing supper for his family on their family night and also having to visit his friend to celebrate his friend's victory of winning the Pavia prize. From the first chapter, I pick up that he wasn't entirely happy about it and somehow jealous as he gave up his dream to look after Daniella and his son 15 years ago. On his way home from the event, he chooses a dark and quiet section to get home and there he is stopped by someone unknown, yet he somehow recognizes the person but cannot place him. This stranger asks him certain questions about his life and asks him whether he is happy with the choices he made - choosing to keep his son or going for his dream. Seems he wasn't happy with his choices. After a while, he then wakes up in another place and doesn't know where he is.
He then realizes that what he thought was real, isn't real, at least from what he sees and his wife isn't his and his son doesn't even exist!
He finally figures what went wrong and tries to make his way home through the box and multiverse that he built when he as the other Jason, the Jason who made the choice to follow his dream instead of the birth of his son. He struggles but eventually makes his way there. But a lot of weird things starts to happen.
It's amazing. From what I read, each choice you make gets made into another world. It creates a path from where you chose this choice or that. So there ends up being a lot of worlds.
I'm not sure if that makes sense, but to me it does.
It's a really cool book!
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“We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“He says, “Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse? I built something that could actually eradicate regret. Let you find worlds where you made the right choice.” Daniela says, “Life doesn’t work that way. You live with your choices and learn. You don’t cheat the system.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
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Jan 10, 2018 11:27PM
We're all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when all that we love and hate, all we believe in and fight for and kill for and die for is as meaningless as images projected on Plexiglas.
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